Love
Upon Love.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
IN a Dreame, Love bad me go
To the Gallies there to Rowe;
In the Vision I askt, why?
Love as briefly did reply;
Twas better there to toyle, then prove
The turmoiles they endure that love.
I awoke, and then I knew
What Love said was too too true:
Henceforth therefore I will be
As from Love, from trouble free.
None pities him that's in the snare,
And warn'd before, wo'd not beware.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/629/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/629/.
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